Tuesday, October 18, 2016

The more that details about the FBI’s investigation into
Hillary Clinton’s email practices come to light, the
more their efforts appear to have been a sham designed
to exonerate her of wrongdoing from the very beginning.

As
we wrote, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) failure to indict
Hillary, based on the recommendation of FBI Director James
Comey, has moved the United States closer to banana republic
status.

The Clinton family’s ongoing corruption and Hillary
Clinton’s pay-to-play as secretary of state have also created a
precedent which could encourage other politicians to enrich
themselves at the expense of the integrity of their office.

The
FBI’s light touch also has created a double standard on national
security, where high-profile figures such as Mrs. Clinton walk
free while others lose their security clearance or are fined or
jailed.
Yet some on the left are unhappy with Comey’s investigation
because of the comments he made publicly characterizing Mrs.
Clinton as “extremely careless” with classified information.
“What Comey should have done…was handle the Clinton
probe like any other routine inquiry: provide confidential
recommendations to prosecutors, release a strictly factual
statement noting that the investigation would be closed,
and resist external pressures to inappropriately air the FBI’s
findings outside a court of law,” argues Riley Roberts, former
speechwriter for former Attorney General Eric Holder, in
Politico Magazine.
Arguably, Clinton’s status as a presidential candidate under
FBI investigation may have called for some public justification
of the FBI’s decision. However, despite Comey’s open
criticisms, the fact remains that he decided to recommend no
indictment for Hillary Clinton. There will be no accountability
for Clinton’s many lies about classified information on her
private email server or the way she jeopardized national security
as secretary of state.

Upon further review, it appears that Mr. Comey’s investigation
was highly unusual, given the five immunity agreements that
were handed out. According to Paul Sperry, writing for the New
York Post, not only was Platte River Networks’ Paul Combetta
granted immunity, the DOJ upheld this immunity despite the
fact that he had lied to the investigators during an interview.
“Instead of asking Attorney General Loretta Lynch to revoke
his immunity deal and squeezing him, Comey let [Combetta]
go because he was a ‘low-level guy,’ he testified at the House
hearing.

It’s yet another action by Comey,” wrote Sperry, “that
has left former prosecutors shaking their heads.”
At that September 28 House Judiciary Committee hearing
featuring Director Comey as a witness, Representative Jim
Jordan (R-OH) accused Combetta of “trying to cover-up the
cover-up” by first using Reddit to solicit information on how
to strip email address information and then trying to delete
his posts. “The same guy later took Bleachbit and did delete
emails,” continued Rep. Jordan.

But Comey insisted that the immunity agreement was
necessary to ensure that the FBI got the facts.
“There’s no doubt Combetta was involved in deleting
emails,” said Comey. “He had the ‘O-sh-t’ moment, as he told
us, and that’s why it was very important for us to interview this
guy to find out who told you to do that, why did you do that.”
According to Andy McCarthy, writing for National Review,
Secretary Clinton’s former chief of staff Cheryl Mills and
Clinton aide Heather Samuelson also received immunity
agreements meant to ensure that they gave the FBI access to
their laptops. However, the FBI could have just subpoenaed
the computers or obtained a search warrant instead. continued on page 3

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